"A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man."
"Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it."
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Source: Charles Dickens (2011). “A Tale of Two Cities Thrift Study Edition”, p.40, Courier Corporation
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